From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:06:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events In-Reply-To: <20160215194037.GU6298@arm.com> References: <20160215194037.GU6298@arm.com> Message-ID: <20160215200613.GY6298@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 07:40:37PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 06:11:56PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote: > > The implemented Cortex A57 events are not A57 specific. > > They are recommended by ARM and can be found on other > > ARMv8 SOCs like Cavium ThunderX too. Therefore move > > these events to the common PMUv3 table. > > I can't find anything in the architecture that suggests these event > numbers are necessarily portable between implementations. Am I missing > something? Aha, I just noticed appendix K3.1 (silly me for missing it...). Lemme check whether or not that mandates that those encodings can't be used for wildly different things. Will